The mercury visions of Louis Daguerre : a novel (2006)
Author: Smith, Dominic
Subject: Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851; Photographers; Mercury in the body; Historical
Publisher: New York : ATRIA Books
Language: English
Digitizing sponsor: Internet Archive
Book contributor: Internet Archive
Collection: printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Full catalog record: MARCXML
Description
When the vision came, he was in the bathtub. So begins the madness of Louis Daguerre. In 1847, after a decade of using poisonous mercury vapors to cure his daguerreotype images, his mind is plagued by delusions. Believing the world will end within one year, Daguerre creates his "Doomsday List" -- ten items he must photograph before the final day. The list includes a portrait of Isobel Le Fournier, a woman he has always loved but not spoken to in half a century
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